Author'e note: so while writing this it's becoming ubundantly clear what a short game this is, in one nearly 5000 word chapter I've already got Frisk past Toriel, now we meet the skelebros and we'll see how it goes. Btw has no names listed for Frisk or Chara they are simply emtitled "protagonist" and "First child" while the latter makes sense because you basically name them the former does not, as no matter what you do the protagonists name is always Frisk…
Chapter 2: Spooky scary skeletons.
Snow, that was pretty much all he could see in this place. Somehow it was lit as though by an unseen sun… magic perhaps? That goat woman was able to fling flames so magic it must be, he supposed. Once his eyes adjusted he could also see a thick treeline on the sides of a long white path that lay before him leading to a wooden bridge. To his left was a bush with something glinting within it. He approached moving the leaves a camera? The fact that such a thing was here made him uneasy. He backed away and headed down the path.
As he walked he stepped over a large branch lying on the ground, the thing was definitely too big to try and wield as a weapon and nearly to thick to break even if he stepped on it so he left it alone. A few paces later though he hears a resounding snap and twirled around quickly to se that the branch had indeed broken… what had caused that? More magic? He didn't wait around to find out and ran quickly towards the bridge which hat an archway over it. Looking abck again he could see a vaugly human shaped silhouette standing there, facing forward he ran again.
As he reached the bridge he looked back once more, seeing nothing he chose to stop and catch his breath, leaning on one of the wooden pillars holding up the arch. Suddenly he heard a voice very close to him, it made him stand stiff and straight, it was a deep and menacing voice.
"Human." It said slowly "Don't you know how to greet a new friend? Turn around. And shake. My. Hand."
Frisk's heart throbbed heavily in his chest closing his eyes he turned slowly and extended his hand it was grasped by another hand made of cold rod like pieces and a strangely soft center… The sound of a long wheezing fart rang out in the forest.
Frisk's eyes snapped open at the absurdity of what he had just heard, what just happened? He wondered. The hand looked skeletal, but there was a small pink, now empty sack in it's palm A whoopee cushion? Frisk wondered.
The voice laughed jovially "ah the old whoopee cushion in the hand trick!" at this Frisk turned his face upward to look upon the new arrival. Only to see a talking skeleton with gleaming spots in the sockets where his eyes should be.
"Ah!" frisk yelled and jumped back pulling out his toy knife and watching as the red energy from before covered it. The skeleton stared at this with interest for a moment then seemed to shift it's attention back to Frisk's face.
"Anyway," he said "You're a human right?" Frisk nodded slowly unsure what it would do. "That's hilarious! The skeleton said "I'm Sans, Sans the skeleton, I'm actually supposed to be on watch for humans right now but… Y'know… I don't really care about capturing anybody. Now my brother Papyrus, he's a human hunting FANATIC!"
Needless to say these words weren't exactly encouragement to the young boy's ears. Even if this skeleton was blas-a-blas about his job of apparently capturing humans for an unknown reason, his brother was not. And that meant that he couldn't trust this guy no matter what he did because in the end he would surely cave and reveal to his presence to this Papyrus person.
"Actually," Sans said "I think that's my brother over there. I have an idea, go right through this gate thingy,"
"Gate?" Frisk said looking up at the archway
"Yeah it's a gate, but…" Sans said scratching his head "my brother built the bars to far apart to stop anyone from getting through." Frisk did as he was bid and he also put the knife away fro now, he would use it when the time came he supposed, though he wasn't sure how he was supposed to kill a skeleton
"There!" Sans said "Behind that conveniently shaped lamp!"
Nope, nope, there is level to which I am just not going to stoop. Frisk thought Dream or not that is so not real it's ridiculous.
Sans stared at him a moment "Well, I guess you don't have to…" without much warning another skeleton appeared this one was much taller and wearing armor and a red scarf. Standing in front of Sans Frisk was quite uncomfortable but he remained without moving.
"Sans!" the new skeleton, he assumed it was Papyrus, said in a shrill, high toned voice "Have you found a human yet?"
"uh… Yep." Sans replied staring around Frisk and at his brother
"Really!?" Papyrus stated with surprise in his voice "Wowie! Well I guess that's settled then!" The new skeleton then ran off into the distance without much in the way of an explaination. This made Frisk curious but he chose to stay put for now and see what Sans would do.
"That worked out huh?" Sans said making a motion as if scratching his chin, he seemed to relax and Frisk decided that perhaps it was time to start looking around. There was a sentry station nearby, he presumed so that Sans and Papyrus could keep a look out for humans, which were apparently unwelcome in this world. So that would be another reason to suspect them and make sure that he didn't end up skeleton food… did skeletons eat?
"You just gonna stare at me?" Sans said suddenly bringing Frisk out of his reverie.
"By the way kid, just so there's no misunderstandin's I'm Sans so your name is…"
Frisk thought about that for a moment, he didn't see the harm in telling him, after all if he was going to get attacked by these guys he'd kill them just like he killed the goat woman "I'm Frisk." He said casually.
"Oh, well okay kid." Sans said "Frisk it is then. By the way, my brother really wants to see a human, it'd really help me out if you kept pretending to be one."
Pretend? "I am a human." Frisk said
"Really?" sans relplied "I expected humans to be more… Amicable I suppose. Oh well." After that Sans continued back towards where they had met, presumably to return to 'watching for humans.'
Frisk continued onward and was assaulted by a number of monsters as he approached another T section in the path.
"We won't let you go any further human!" One of them said angrily "Yeah, we know what happened in the ruins, you're more monstrous than us!" another stated.
"More mosterous." Frisk wondered aloud
"I know who you are." An older monster among them said "You're Chara, aren't you. the evil adoptive son of the king, I never liked you and I never trusted you. youre soul is still stained red with blood as it was before."
Frisk was surprised by this… Another human had been here, and he had been adopted by the king of monsters, they had been kind to him? But he had betrayed that kindness? It didn't really matter, he supposed these guys were out to kill him, and the flower was right in that sense, this world was very much kill or be killed. Frisk smiled maybe a scary alias wouldn't be a bad idea after all…
"Sure little toad." Frisk said menacingly "Call me Chara, call me whatever you like, but the end for you is still the same!" he pulled out the knife and attacked slashing through the old toad like monster and twisting his body to stab the Moldsmall that joined them.
"What the-" the other monsters yelled in fear as two of their numbers vanished into dust.
The snowbird looking monster summoned moon shaped ice sickles and threw them at him quickly while the floating… whatever that thing was with all the ice on it's head pulled out ridiculous cannon looking guns and fired spiked bullets towards him. He couldn't help but smile, as it turned out this was really fun, like a video game or an intense game of tag. He was enjoying himself here.
The icecap… that's what he decided to call the floating thing with hat made of ice swooped in to finish the job and he quickly made the monster regret it, slashing and stabbing until the floating ball was dust on his hands, before the bird could fly off in fear he lept forward and sunk the knife into his chest forcing him to stay still then grabbed his head and twisted HARD he heard a satisfying snap and let the monster's body fall to the ground turning to dust as it did. He sneezed. One disadvantage to all this was the dust got stuck in his nostrils.
He briefly saw his reflection in the shiny plastic of the knife and noticed his eyes glowing red cool he thought before they returned to normal. He wondered if there were other monsters out here waiting to be crushed he looked for a few minutes but he didn't find anything so, getting bored, he moved on. He hadn't expected this turn of events, he was strong here in the dream and he liked it, it was fun.
He continued walking on until he noticed the two skeleton brothers standing in the path wait what? He thought I swear Sans headed back to the ruins, how is he here? This… this is not good, he might be strong too, I don't know if I want to fight him yet.
"Sans!" Papyrus said "when is the human showing up!? I want to look my Sunday best, or at least my Tuesday pretty good!"
"Don't you only have one outfit?" Sans replied nonchalantly
"Yeah." Papyrus replied "But I could style my hair!"
"Oh right," Sans said suppressing a chuckle "Good idea, say why don't you look over there!" he pointed right at Frisk which only made the human child angrier and there's the betrayal I've come to expect he though with a grinding grudge.
After turning multiple times to look at each other like some lame comedy TV skit Papyrus shook his head "Sans!" he said "Oh my god… I'm dizzy, what am I looking at?"
"Behold!" Sans said motioning behind the human on the road.
"Sans!" Papyrus yelled angrily "Why are you making me look at a rock!?"
Are these guys serious? Frisk thought They'll be easy to kill he thought again with a smirk
"Hey!" Sans said "What's that in front of the rock?"
"Oh my god! Papyrus said looking at frisk "I have no Idea what that is…"
"Well it's not a rock." Sans said as though trying to lead his brother's thought process.
"Not a rock?" Papyrus asked "Oh No! By process of elimination that means it's a human!" Papyrus then turned his full attention to Frisk's diminutive form, his hand still clutching the knife. "Human! Prepare yourself for High Jinks! And low Jinks! Shenanigans, Capers Japers and Being captured!"
Like hell Frisk though darkly.
"And other Fun activities!" the larger skeleton brother continued "Refreshments will be provided! If you dare! Nyeh heh heh heh heh heh heh heh!
What… Frisk thought The hell.
"And you don't even bat an eye huh?" Sans said again forcing him away from his thoughts. the smaller brother walked away, and Frisk noticed that he had missed the other brother's exit, he had no idea where he had gone. Then again Frisk thought Sans went one way, and ended up the other, they know this place like the back of their hands.
Moving forward he spotted what appeared to be another sentry station like the one he had seen before, except that this one seemed to be constructed out of a rather large cardboard box. There was a sign taped to the front of it, it read: "You observe the well crafted sentry station. Who could have built this you ponder… I bet it was that very famous royal guardsman! (Note: Not yet a very famous royal guardsman).
This guy… Frisk thought Is so full of himself that he might start leaking at his seams.
Shaking his head he moved on and was ambushed by another group of monsters looking to end his existence, much like the ones from before he dispatched them flawlessly and watched their dust crumble to the ground. Another victory another smirk of confidence.
Another sentry station was up ahead he decided not to pay it any mind as so far none of the stations had been manned or anything, he was pretty sure the skeleton brothers were just after him for some kind of prize or money at this point. No sooner he stepped in front of the station then a humanoid dog lept up causing him to freeze due to being startled.
"Did something move!?" the dog said in a gruff voice "Was it my imagination? I can only see moving things… Hey I can't stop shivering all of a sudden.
It is pretty cold out here… Frisk thought as he continued to stand still and see what this dog would do, supposedly unable to see him.
"Whose there?" the dog said, he pulled a sword from a scabbard in his back and began swinging it violently, Frisk dodged the blade… barely, this dog knew where to strike despite being blind.
"Movement! Movement!" The dog-man said excitedly baring his blade down on Frisk before the boy had a chance to move again, the lade burned with a blue energy similar to the red power that covered his own knife.
This is gonna hurt was all he had time to think before the blade slammed down on him with powerful force… except the blade passed through him as though he was not there.
"It moved!" The dog said "It didn't not move, maybe it'll move this time!" the dog said Frisk was curious and stood still, again the blade burned blue and the dog swung before him as though ready to cut and opponent in half. And again the blade passed through him harmlessly.
He stood, prompting the dog to stab with his magical useless blade, when again he hit nothing but air he stopped
"Maybe I really did imagine it." He said looking around carefully "Unless it's that stupid sans again, damn skeleton travels without moving! Not fair to blind old dog like me!"
"So you only see things that move huh?" Frisk said aloud.
"What!?" The dog turned to face him but since he wasn't moving couldn't see him. "That voice is too light to be Sans! Identify yourself!
Frisk rushed forward and buried his knife deep in the dog's chest prompting a whistling whining sound.
"I'm the one you just tried to kill." He said "And now I'll return the favor."
The dog-man's form trembled as he desperately tried to keep hold of his body but he failed and his body melted into dust all over frisk's hands and shirt. The boy patted his shirt to get the dust off, but some of it clung to his hands despite his best attempts to get it off.
Moving onward he encountered what appeared to be a wird frozen lake with a small island in the middle, the island had a sign on it. The sign seemed to be written by a child or a lazy adult. "West: Ice; North: Ice; South Ice; East: Snowdin… and Ice." Frisk laughed a little at the lame joke but headed eastward towards Snowdin. Again his path was blocked by the ridiculous skeleton brothers.
"Really though! That Human!" Papyrus was saying as he slowly trod towards them, stopping before a perfectly square patch of ground cleared of all snow. "Do I know that person?" he asked.
"Do you not know who you know?" Sans responded with a wink.
"I know who I know!" Papyrus angrily replied back "I wanted to know if you know, I know who I know as much I know I know who I know You know?"
This is ridiculous Frisk thought Though admittedly entertaining…
"Oh-Ho! The human arrives!" Papyrus stated excitedly.
"Been here for a bit now." Frisk said with a sly smirk
"In order to stop you, my brother and I have created some puzzles!" Papyrus continued I think you find this one…"
Frisk had lost patience with this puzzle mania that the people of this world seemed to share, so seeing nothing in front of him he decided to walk forward and reveal that there was no puzzle after all…
"Quite Shoking…" Papyrus finished before noticing that Frisk had lost patience. "For you see… This is the… Invisible…" his voice began to trail off with each word looking utterly defeated which only widened the smile on Frisk's face.
"Uhhh…" Papyrus continued "You must be having culture shock…"
"That pun wasn't even funny." Frisk said shrugging his shoulders.
"Well…" Sans said "I can't disagree… but don't worry Papyrus keep at it, you'll get it eventually!"
"That's Not the point!" Papyrus yelled angrily. "You see human.. where I come from it is a loving tradition to suffer through horrible puzzles for no reason…"
"Yeah right," He said continuing his slow march towards Papyrus and sans staring upward at the taller skeleton with glowing red eyes that put him ill at ease.
"So… Uh… Just walk back over there… and uh…" Papyrus drooped his shoulders looking defeated and sighed heavily "Why couldn't we get a human that likes puzzles?" he whined as he slowly shuffled away, Frisk wasn;t really sure why he stood there, allowing this guy to walk off, he guessed that in the end he wasn't really trying to kill him he supposed. So perhaps he shouldn't kill either… but he thought it was more likely the bad vibe he got off the shorter brother. Something about Sans threw him off, he wasn't sure what, but he felt it better not to show his ill intentions in front of the hoodie clad skeleton.
Frisk left Sans standing there as the smaller skeleton shrugged his shoulders and turned around, presumably headed to whatever his next destination was. In the next area he found a large snowball and a cliff with a couple of sentry stations at it. They were labeled 'his' and 'hers' and there was a sign talking about different smells.
He kicked the snowball around a bit feeling a bit nostalgic and thinking of home… memories swelled in his head, memories of a time that was better, when his father had been better employed and his mother had not yet turned to drink. His older brother and he had always played together and in the winter they would often build snowmen and roll together huge snowballs.
C'mon Frisk! We'll use this as a base to the biggest snowman ever built! He chuckled at the memory, it was so sad that it was all over. For a time he lay on cold ground and cried, tears streaming down his face only to be frozen as they fell. He lay on his back on another patch of ground cleared of snow and stared upward until his consciousness faded and he drifted off to sleep… could one sleep in a dream he wondered, he was about to find out either way.
Author's note: So I know I skipped the snowman, there is a reason for that I really wish I had watched more genocide playthrough footage before posting the first chapter Toriel has a really great line she says as she dies if you just kill her outright she says: "Do you really hate me that much, I see now who I was protecting by keeping you here… not you… but them!" some sobering stuff, but nonetheless I like Frisk being able to look back at her as a motherly figure I think, after all genocide is but the beginning of this sad tale so look forward to more! (P.S. I know I haven't updated Spirit of the king in awhile, sorry guys I kinda got this game stuck in my head and I need to get it out if I can but I do have the next chapter started I'm suffering from some serious writer's block on what to do next though…)